Dillon News Briefs and Local Advertisements Mix
District snippets from Dillon include Hubert MacNinch visiting Dell and Elsie Garrison shopping, Tattersall’s ads for carpets and sewing machines, hats at half price, and homegrown flowers from Dillon Greenhouses. Residents travel to Butte, Madison County, and Laurin. a grey fox muff is missing with a reward offered. Local notices cover real estate, rentals, and services.
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Hazelbaker
Elsie Garrison
Reichle
Dillon
Tattersall’s
Addie Baldwin
George Ditty
Madison County
Anna Hazard
Butte
Roy Stevenson
Kupfer Drug Co
Walter Jones
John Mullen
Armstead
Charles Pruitt
Dillon Greenhouses
Primitive living in Haiti described by a traveler
The article sketches a Haitian town around a central dusty square with a palm topped patrie, narrow dirt streets, plastered mud and thatched houses, a ruined church, ragged markets, and gendarmerie guards. It contrasts Haitian hamlets with Congo villages, noting primitive conditions and tropical scents observed by Harry Alfrank in Roaming Through the West Indies.
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Haltian
Congo
Harry Alfranck
West Indies
Pumping Plant for the Airplane
The Fokker F-IT uses a power driven pump mounted near the engine to transfer gasoline from drums to airplane tanks. A hose reaches from the pump to a can or drum outside the housing, allowing a single worker to fuel the aircraft quickly with minimal spillage.
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Herr Pokker
Folleys Honey and Tar Ad Offers Trial Package
A vintage ad invites readers to mail a slip to Foley & Co for a trial package of Folley’s Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. The notice cites Mrs Myron Hayden of Clarksburg Mass praising the remedy for colds. The feature also includes a humorous divorce-lawyer quote about love and taxes.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Myron Hayden
Clarksburg
Mass
Witty Tale Puts Fresh Light On Miss Terry’s Quick Wit
Ethel Barrymore recalls Miss Terry in a garden party quip about a dressmaker lawsuit. The tale features Miss Terry claiming the judge was too old to understand the case and later quipping about wanting a judge her own age, highlighting Terry’s famed tact.
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Ethel Barrymore
Ien Terry
Miss Terry
Judge of Appeals
Terry
Minneapolis Tribune
Scarcity of Hurricanes May Not Signal Year’s Activity
The United States weather bureau says early June hurricanes from the West Indies should not alarm the public. Officials note it is unusual but not predictive, with bureau records showing only eight June hurricanes in the past century and only 1886 had above average later storms.
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West Indies
United States Weather Bureau
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Bureau
West India
Marine Division
Weather Bureau
Slushand and Wife Praise Foley Cathartic Tablets
Mr and Mrs James Carson of Columbus New Mexico sign a letter stating they will never be without Foley Cathartic Tablets and call them essential to good health. They claim the tablets keep the stomach sweet liver active and bowels regular banishing constipation indigestion biliousness and sick headaches.
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James Carson
Columbus
N. M
It Helped Her Husband
Mrs J McCullough of 236 Snyder St Aston Pa says her husband with a bad back could barely rise from a chair and would be pulled to one side. After taking Foley Kidney Pills he is now well. If you have stiff joints rheumatic pains or sore muscles try Foley Kidney Pills sold everywhere.
Perfectly Wonderful Jazz Echoes in a Droll Tale
The daughter praises a phono graph as perfectly wonderful while the father recalls a farcical collision of milk cans and a freight car with live chickens in a Judge comment on novelty and sound in a city home.
Wild Crab Apples Worth Saving for Jellies
The Woman's Home Companion notes wild crab apples bloom in spring and ripen into small fruit by autumn. They jelly well and enhance flavors of other fruits, cooking soft without becoming mushy and easy to peel. Preserving these native fruits is urged as a patriotic household duty.
Impossible plot critique in a Brooklyn Eagle squib
The Brooklyn Eagle mocks a writer whose tale, though well built, strains credulity. The editor cites lines from chapter three where a hero freely roams to a rose scented cottage and learns it is to let, deeming it ridiculously impossible.
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Scrawl
Rich
Brooklyn Eagle
Advice For Women Who Suffer Kidney Trouble Pills
Mrs Bessie Browney of Cleveland Ohio writes that Foley Kidney Pills restored her energy after kidney trouble and helped her resume housework. She urges other women to try the pills.
Photographs Pin Aurora Borealis Height at 31214 Miles
Norwegian scientist M. Stormer photographed aurora borealis across Norway last May and compared the images with known stars. He concludes the aurora extended about 31 214 miles above Earth, implying the atmosphere reaches at least that height as an electrical illumination of rarified gases.
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M. Stormer
Detroit News
Stacking The Cards
A Birmingham Age Herald item notes a chorus girl seeking 100000 dollars in a “heart balm” claim from a millionaire. She was washing dishes when interviewed. the press quotes her and suggests a sharp lawyer may have set the plan in motion.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Demand the Best Butter from Salmon Creamery
The Salmon Creamery of Salmon Idaho advertises Famous Lemhi Creamery butter churned three times weekly from Jersey cream and shipped to Dillon stores thrice weekly. If dealers are out of stock, readers should mail notice to ensure prompt supply and fresh churned butter for every family.
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Jersey
Dillon
Salmon Creamery
Salmon
Idaho
Mrs. Milton Waite Endorses Foley’s Honey and Tar for Coughs
A Michigan reader from Azalia endorses Foley’s Honey and Tar after twenty years of use. She praises its effectiveness against coughs and croup and notes children like the product.
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Milton Waite
Azalia, Mich
Foley
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Campbell’s Soup
Hershey’s Chocolate
Lipton
Walker
le Walker
Vincent
Dillon News Briefs
Hubert MacNinch
Dell
Max Lauterbach
Tattersall's
George Strube
Robert J. Moore, Jr
California
R.J. Moore
Jas, Kirkpatrick, Dillon, Fontana
Daniel Foley
Laurin
Lynon
Adv
Tom Craver
Medicine Lodge
Tattersall’s. Adv
William Miller
Monida
Thomas Mullen
Marjorie
Dillon Friends
Dr. Best
Metlen
Olmsted-Stevenson
S. 6Rf
Parke T. Scott
Col
Decker
Auty
Pocatello
Wieser
Salt Lake
Scotts
Clarence Seage
New York
Haiti
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Garette
The
Slushand and Wife
Toley
Bessie Brawney
Scoville Ave
Cleveland
Prunes
Viel
Viel’s Cash Stores
Rambouillet
Rams
Brearley & Williams
Alder, Mont
Carnegie Steel
Youngstown
Ohio
Carnegie Steel Company
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